Improvement in extension wagon-bodies



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A. G. HEIST. Extension Wagon-Bodies.

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Extension Wagon-Bodies.

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IMPROVEMENT IN EXTENSION WAGONBODIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,036, dated April 21, 1874; application filed y March 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED G. HEIST, of Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lagons and do hereby decla-re that the followin is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in whieh- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved wagon with the box closed together. Fig. 2 is alike view of the same, showing the box extended. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the lower side of said box, and Fig. 4 is a vertical. section upon line .t a: of Fig. 3.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in cach of the figures.

ln some sections of the country it would be profitable for 'agons employed for hauling timber from saw-mills to town, upon return trips to haul merchandise, were it not for the fact that the requirements of the different materials composing the loads render impracticable the use of the same style of wagon.

To obviate these difficulties is the design. of my invention, which consists in a wagon having its box and running-gear made extensible, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as is hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawings, A represents the box of a wagon, which, at its ends, rests upon and is supported by means of running-gear B and D and ground-wheels C and C, of any usual or ordinary construction. At or near its longitudinal center the box A is divided transversely, and the sections thus formed are connected together by means of two wooden bars, D and D, which have, preferably, a rectangular form in cross-section, and are contained within suitable metal straps F and F, that are secured upon the lower side of said boX, two of said straps being placed at the inner end of each section of the same. The upper side Aof the bottom of each box-section, at its inner end, is strengthened by means of a metal plate, E, through which said bottom, and the strap F immediately beneath, is provided an opening, g, that receives a bolt or pin, G. A series of openings, d, which correspond in size to the transverse dimensions of the bolt G, is provided in and through each bar D, and enable said bolt to be passed through the' latter and confine it in longitudinal position within the strap F.

As thus arranged, it will be seen that by rcmoving the bolts G and G, the sections of the box A can be separated to such distance as to )ermit lumber havin 0' anv desired length to be D I. L.

contained therein, after which, by replacing said bolts within their openings and within the coinciding openings of the bars D and D, said box-sections will be securely connected together.

rlhe construction shown increases but slightly the cost of a wagon, while it enables the same to perform the oftices of two heretofore separate and distinct wagons.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new 1s he box A, divided centrally and transversely, and having its sections connected together by means of the bars D'and D, which are provided with the openings d and d, rest within the straps F and F, and receive the bolts G and G, all combined substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto setmy hand this 5th day of March, 1874.

ALFRED G. HEIST.

Witnesses GEO. S. PRINDLE, JonN R. YOUNG. 

